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"HAIL,  COLUMBIA!" 

A  Defense  of  the  American  Stage 
By  WILLIAM  ARCHER 

Faery  Lands   of   the   Sea 
By  JAMES  NORMAN  HALL 
and  CHARLES  NORDHOFF 

Two  Christmas  Mornings  of 
The  Great  War 

A  Group  of  Poems  by 
ROBERT  FROST 


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We're  no  longer  a  nation 

of  "red-blooded  Americans" 


— Scientists  say 

One  in  every  three — rich  or  poor- 
suffers  from  malnutrition 


IED-BLOODED  American"— in  that 
phrase   historians    and    biographers 
have  summed  up  the  attributes  of 
strength  in  many  an  American  pio- 
neer and  leader. 
Red  blood  is  a  synonym  of  health  and  vigor; 
it  is  the  nourisher  of  human  life. 

The  pale  cheeks  and  pallid  lips 
of  millions  of  Americans  today, 
the  lack  of  vitality  and  vim  so 
often  complained  of,  indicate, 
authorities  say,  a  deficiency  of 
certain  food  elements  our  blood 
and  body  tissues  need. 


And    phosphorous,    absolutely   essential   to    the 
nerves  and  brain. 

In  our  foods  of  protein,  starches,  sugars  and 
fats  we  must  also  have  these  organic  mineral  ele- 
ments. They're  vital  to  health  and  growth.  So 
Nature  put  them  in  the  whole  wheat  grain. 


The  16  vital 

elements 

Sixteen  natural  food  elements 
are  needed  to  keep  the  normal 
human  being  strong  and  well. 

And  in  the  wheat  grain  Nature 
provides  all  of  these  elements  in 
more  nearly  the  proper  propor- 
tion than  any  other  food,  save 
possibly  milk. 


The  16  vital  elements 
of  nutrition 


Oxygen 

Hydrogen 

Nitrogen 

Carbon 

Sulphur 

Magnesium 

Phosphorous 


Sodium 

Chlorin 

Fluorin 

Silicon 

Manganese 

Potassium 

Iron 

Iodine 


But  many  of  the  most  im- 
portant of  these  are  lost  in  the 
modern  methods  of  wheat  preparation,  through 
the  removal  of  the  six  outer  layers  of  the  grain, 
commonly  called  the  bran. 

The  iron,  for  instance,  which  makes  that  part 
of  the  red  corpuscles  in  the  blood  which  carries 
life-giving  oxygen  to  every  cell  in  the  system. 

The  calcium,  which  is  the  largest  constituent 
of  strong  bones  and  the  solid  enamel  of  the  teeth. 


Each  grain  of  wheat  contains 
these  sixteen  vital  elements. 
Read  how  many  of  them  are 
lost  in  modern  methods  of 
wheat  preparation. 

Only  when  we  get  a  suffi- 
cient supply  of  all  these  ele- 
ments are  we  filled  with  that 
abundant  vitality  of  "  red- 
blooded  Americans." 


A  delicious  whole 
wheat  food 

Thousands  now  draw  from  Na- 
ture's larder  the  sixteen  vital 
elements  —  in  Pettijohn's,  a 
whole  wheat  breakfast  food  of 
rich  and  gratifying  taste. 

Its  steaming  fragrance  awak- 
ens sluggish  appetites  in  young 
and  old.  With  cream  and  sugar 
it  makes  a  vital  energy  ration  of 
luscious  nut-like  flavor. 

If  you  have  been  feeling  below 
normal  in  energy  and  vim — try 
Pettijohn's. 

If  you  suffer  from  congestion 
of  the  intestinal  tract,  give  this 
food  with  its  natural  bran  laxa- 
tive a  chance  to  set  you  right. 

If  you  have  a  child  who  does  not 
radiate  health  in  the  sparkle  of  the 
eye,  in  the  color  of  the  cheeks  and  the  full  develop- 
ment of  his  body — try  Pettijohn's.  Give  him  a 
chance  to  become  a  real  "  Red-blooded  American." 

Your  grocer  has  Pettijohn's — or  will  gladly  get 
it  for  you.  Make  tomorrow's  breakfast  of  this 
delicious  sixteen-vital-elements  food. 

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HARPER'S      MAGAZINE 


DECEMBER  1920 


Frontispiece  in  Color 


Hail,  Columbia!    Part  I 

Illustrations  in  Tint  by  GEORGE  WRIGHT 

Morning  Light.     A  Poem 


Terry  Sees  Red.     A  Story 

Illustrations  by  JOHN  ALONZO  WILLIAMS 

Two  Christmas  Mornings  of  the  Great  War    . 


The  Shame  Dance.     A  Story 

Illustrations  in  Color  by  C.  E.  CHAMBERS 

Faery  Lands  of  the  Sea.     Part  //.... 

Illustrated  with  Photographs 

A  Group  of  Poems 

The  Souls  of  Stitt.     A  Story 

The  Development  of  American  Drama       .     . 
The  Left-Handed  Piccolo  Player.    A  Story     . 

Illustrations  by  PETER  NEWELL 

Despair.     A  Poem 

The  Mind  in  the  Making.     Part  IV     .     .     . 
A  Tragedy  of  Gustatory  Selection.    A  Story    . 


C.  E.  CHAMBERS 
W.  L.  GEORGE  .... 
MARY  E.  WILKINS  FREEMAN 
GRACE  H.  FLANDRAU  .  . 
CAPTAIN  WILFRID  EWART  . 
WILBUR  DANIEL  STEELE 

JAMES  NORMAN  HALL  and  . 
CHARLES  NORDHOFF  .  .  . 

ROBERT   FROST         .... 

MARY  AUSTIN 

WILLIAM  ARCHER  .  .  .  . 
PHILIP  CURTISS  .... 
HESPER  LE  GALLIENNE  .  . 
JAMES  HARVEY  ROBINSON  . 
CLARENCE  DAY,  JR.  .  .  . 


The  Lion's  Mouth 

"  A  Fable  fot  Parents,"  by  C.  A.  Bennett — "Emily's  Trunk  and  the  Dawning  Era,"  by  Philip  Curtiss — 
"On  Some  Difficulties  of  Telling  the  Tiuth,"  by  Richard  Le  Gallienne. 

Editor's  Easy  Chair EDWARD  s.  MARTIN  .     .     . 


Editor's  Drawer 

"Reforming  Julius,"  by  Albert  Bigelow  Paine;  illustrations  by  Peter  Newell.    "The  Day  After  Christ- 
mas," by  Juliet  Wilbur  Tompkins.    Drawings  by  Calvert  Smith  and  A.  B.  Walker. 

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A    GROUP    OF    POEMS 

BY   ROBERT   FROST 

FIRE    AND    ICE 

SOME  say  the  world  will  end  in  fire, 
Some  say  in  ice. 
From  what  I've  tasted  of  desire 
I  hold  with  those  who  favor  fire. 

But  if  it  had  to  perish  twice, 
I  think  I  know  enough  of  hate 

To  know  that  for  destruction  ice 
Is  also  great, 

And  would  suffice. 

WILD    GRAPES 

WHAT  tree  may  hot  the  fig  be  gathered  from? 
The  grape  may  not  be  gathered  from  the  birch? 
It's  all  you  know  the  grape,  or  know  the  birch. 
As  a  girl  gathered  from  the  birch  myself 
Equally  with  my  weight  in  grapes  one  autumn, 
I  ought  to  know  what  tree  the  grape  is  fruit  of. 
I  was  born,  I  suppose,  like  anyone, 
And  grew  to  be  a  little  boyish  girl 
My  brother  could  not  always  leave  at  home. 
But  that  beginning  was  wiped  out  in  fear 
The  day  I  swung  suspended  with  the  grapes, 
And  was  come  after  like  Eurydice 
And  brought  down  safely  from  the  upper  regions; 
And  the  life  I  live  now's  an  extra  life 
I  can  waste  as  I  please  on,  whom  I  please. 
So  if  you  see  me  celebrate  two  birthdays, 
And  give  myself  out  of  two  different  ages, 
One  of  them  five  years  younger  than  I  look — 


One  day  my  brother  led  me  to  a  glade  ( 
Where  a  white  birch  he  knew  of  stood  alone, 
Wearing  a  thin  headdress  of  pointed  leaves, 
And  heavy  on  her  heavy  hair  behind, 
Against  her  neck,  an  ornament  of  grapes. 


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And  loosing  the  pent-up  music  of  over  night. 
But  dawn  was  not  to  begin  their  "pearly-pearly" 
(By  which  they  mean  the  rain  is  pearls  so  early 
Before  it  changes  to  diamonds  in  the  sun), 
,  Neither  was  song  that  day  to  be  self-begun. 

You  had  begun  it,  and  if  there  needed  proof — 

I  was  asleep  still  under  the  dripping  roof, 

My  window  curtain  hung  over  the  sill  to  wet; 

But  I  should  awake  to  confirm  your  story  yet; 

I  should  be  willing  to  say  and  help  you  say 

That  once  you  had  opened  the  valley's  singing  day. 


THE  NEED    OF   BEING    VERSED    IN    COUNTRY   THINGS 

THE  house  had  gone  to  bring  again 
To  the  midnight  sky  a  sunset  glow. 
Now  the  chimney  was  all  of  the  house  that  stood, 
Like  a  pistil  after  the  petals  go. 


The  barn  opposed  across  the  way, 

That  would  have  joined  the  house  in  flame 

Had  it  been  the  will  of  the  wind,  was  left 
To  bear  forsaken  the  place's  name. 

No  more  it  opened  with  all  one  end 

For  teams  that  came  by  the  stony  road 

To  drum  on  the  floor  with  scurrying  hoofs 
And  brush  the  mow  with  the  summer  load. 

The  birds  that  came  to  it  through  the  air 
At  broken  windows  flew  out  and  in, 

Their  murmur  more  like  the  sigh  we  sigh 
From  too  much  dwelling  on  what  has  been. 

Yet  for  them  the  lilac  renewed  its  leaf, 

And  the  aged  elm,  though  touched  with  fire; 

And  the  dry  pump  flung  up  an  awkward  arm; 
And  the  fence  post  carried  a  strand  of  wire. 

For  them  there  was  really  nothing  sad. 

But  though  they  rejoiced  in  the  nest  they  kept, 
One  had  to  be  versed  in  country  things 

Not  to  believe  the  phoebes  wept. 


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